Sole-edge and heel shave



NtTED STATES OWEN B. PARKER, OF HOPKINTON, MASSAUHUSETTS.

SOLE-EDGE AND HEEL SHAVE.

Specification forming part`` of Letters Patent No. 412,306, dated April 12, 1864.

To all tchem it may concer'n:

Be it known that I, OWEN B. PARKER, a resident of Hopkinton, in the county of' Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Sole-Edge and Heel Sh ve; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully deseribed in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Figp3 an under side view, ofit. Fig. 4 is an under side view of a shave containing my invention in a inodified construction, or, in other words, it exhibits one ot' the niodes in which I have contemplated the application of that principle of my invention by which it is distinguished from others for a similar purpose, the nature of my said invention being an improved sole and heel edge shave, constructed not only with a eutting-knife and an adjustabe gage, but having the said euttingl knife formed with a rounded-edge notch, arranged With respect to the cutting-edge of the knife, as hereinafter specified; and, as auxiliai'y thereto, my invention further consists in the adjustable gage and its scale as provided with a looking projection or st ud and a series of recesses therefor, arranged or applied with respect to such gage substantially in manner and so as to operate as-hereinafter explained.

In the drawings, A (lenotes the stock of the shave, it being provided with two handles, a a, and with a throat or recess, b, the latter being disposed between the two handles and covered by the knife B, which is curved longitudinally, and at its two extreinities is furnished with two starts, c c, to enter the stock and hold the knife in its place thereon. Alongside of the knife B there is fixed to the stock a Curved bearer, O, which is not only furnished with a soale of divisions, as shown at o, but has a long slot, d, out longitudinally through it and the stock, such slot being parallel, or about so, to the cutting-edge of the knife. An adjustable gage, D, formed as represented in side view in Fig. 5, rests on the plate O, and has its shank e extended through the slot d, and furnished with a male screw, f, to receive a thumb-nut, E, which, by being screwed on the said shank and against the stock or a metallic plate, F, inserted in the stock, serves to clainp the gage in position. Furthermore, each of the divisions of the scalc has a countersink or recess, h, for the reception of a stud, fi, which extends from the gage in manner as shown in Fig. 5, and serves the purpose of insuring the position of the gage or preventin g it from sli ppi ng out of place on the scale while the shave may be in the act of being used for the purpose of dressing or shaving either the edge of a sole or a heel of a shoe. The knife B, I make with a long notch, as shown at k, extending below or back from-its cutting-edge, l, and having its edge rounded or transversely dulled, so as not to be capable of Cutting or be likely to cut the upper-leather of a shoe while the said knife may be borne against the same and be in 'the act of cutting or shaving the edge of the sole or heel of such shoe, as the case may be. A material feature ofmy invention is the knife as so made with the rounded-edge notch.

In Fig. 4 the knife with the dulled-edge notch is shown. The gage 1), howe-ver, instead of having its shank go through the bearer and stock in the manner as exhibitedin Figs. 1, 2, and 3, has a curved and slotted shank, which lies on the bearer O, and is held to the same by a clampscrew, E, which goes through the slot ofthe shank and screws into the bearer O, or the same and the stock.

Ordinary hand-shaves made without the rounded-edge notch in their knives are apt while in use to cut and injure the upper of a boot or shoe unless great care be observed in their use but with my improved shave there is no danger of the occurrence of such an aecident.

I claim- 1. The improved sole-edge and heel shave,`

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

